Chef: Tom Kerridge

The only chef to receive two Michelin stars for pub grub, Tom Kerridge has also released a best-selling cookbook, successfully presented the BBC's Tom Kerridge's Proper Pub Food and Spring Kitchen with Tom Kerridge, writes a newspaper column and has earned the praise of his celebrity clients who frequent Buckinghamshire's The Hand & Flowers.

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On winning GQ's Chef Of The Year award, Kerridge says: "In 2011 we opened the first two Michelin-starred pub. It's a triumph for a fat middle aged bloke to be stood on the stage at the GQ awards".